Pavel, thanks for posting. It is excellent to have a forum member in your part of the world to provide insight and education on athletes we don’t get to know well enough. kk:)
I agree! I saw a presentation on her by her coach in the spring of 81 at the Venice sprints conference and he mentioned that they trained outside for most or all of the year and sometimes used spikes on an ice rink. Any truth to this?
Jarmila is not a mere mortal! My ex coach Ludvik Svoboda was telling me of a training session he saw here do in spain…5x500 with full recovery, all times faster than the fastest recorded time ever (no WR in this event).She managed only 4, so her coach made her come back the next day and do it all again…thats what I call training!
Thanks for the post Pavel!
I have a lot of information on Jarmilla’s training. I couldn’t upload to this thread so sent it to the CF e-mail address, hoping Rupert could post it for me, did you receive the files ok Rupert ?
From Sports Illustrated Jan '84
‘Instead, she put in two hard training sessions a day, doing such things as 15 brisk 300-meter intervals of 47 seconds each, with 100 meter trots in between. Miler’s work. “The philosophy of her training,” said her gently smiling, roly-poly coach, Miroslav Kvac, “is that building endurance doesn’t have a negative effect on her speed.”’ A gentle tempo session falling within the bracket 75% of best time or slower.
